Recommendations for learning ASP.NET MVC from a desktop developer's perspective

Question

One of my New Year\'s Resolutions is to finally learn some web development. I\'ve decided on ASP.NET MVC as I\'m a believer in TDD and IoC. I\'m looking for a list of topics a

Answer 1

Sorry if this sounds a bit simplistic, but... The tutorials at http://asp.net/mvc, while basic, are good to get you comfortable with the framework. As is NerdDinner. I've found that if you have a development background then learning MVC is not that big of a stretch, so long as you can grasp the MVC pattern which is pretty straight-forward. It'll be more effort to get the web interface side of things up to speed. Your best bet would be to get comfortable with HTML, JavaScript (and AJAX), and CSS so that you can produce a good interface (view).

And the obligatory "learn jQuery" for your web UI.